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HOBART, Australia >> A woman watched her father being mauled to death by a large shark on Saturday while the pair were diving off the Australian island state of Tasmania, police said. The adult woman had returned to their boat with scallops that the pair had collected then became concerned that her father, in his late 40s, had not surfaced after her, Inspector David Wiss told reporters in the state capital of Hobart.

Despite a public frenzy in North Carolina over a recent spate of shark attacks, Los Angeles County residents can, for the most part, breathe, swim and surf easy — they have a much greater chance of winning the lottery than getting bitten by a great white shark.

OAK ISLAND, N.C. — Beachgoers cautiously returned to the ocean Monday after two young people lost limbs in separate, life-threatening shark attacks in the same town in North Carolina. A 12-year-old girl lost her left hand and suffered a leg injury Sunday afternoon; then, about an hour later and 2 miles away, a shark bit off the left arm of a 16-year-old boy.

LOS OSOS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a surfer at a Central California beach survived an attack by a juvenile great white shark. Supervising State Park Ranger Robert Colligan said Sunday that the man in his 50s sustained minor injuries and was able to paddle himself to shore.

Swimmers, surfers and fishermen have, for the most part, co-existed in relative peace in South Bay coastal waters. Yes, there are occasional complaints when a surfer becomes entangled in a fishing line or body boarders glide across a fisherman’s line, lifeguards say.

Responding to widespread outrage over a video depicting a hooked shark thrashing into a long-distance swimmer off the Manhattan Beach Pier, the fisherman who snagged the 7-foot great white defended himself Monday, calling the incident “a tragic accident.

WARNING: This video contains graphic evidence of the shark attack on Saturday at Manhattan Beach. The video also contains profanity. Manhattan Beach >> A graphic video has surfaced on YouTube showing an entangled shark biting a long-distance swimmer in Manhattan Beach on Saturday.

Steven Robles has spent much of his life in the Pacific Ocean. The lifelong long-distance swimmer even swam 20 miles from Catalina Island to Rancho Palos Verdes last year. But on Saturday morning, in the final yards of a pier-to-pier swim from Hermosa Beach to Manhattan Beach with a group of fellow swimmers, Robles came face to face with a great white shark.

A great white shark struggling to break free from a fisherman’s line attacked a swimmer just south of the Manhattan Beach Pier on Saturday, one of the busiest beach days of the year. The victim, identified only as a 40-year-old man, was bit on the torso and is expected to survive, said Los Angeles County Lifeguard Capt.